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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4570140, member: 96635&quot;]Besides Alexander the Great, there was another the Great, another &#039;Megas&#039;. His name is Antiochos III, and he was the greatest of all Seleukid kings after Seleukos I Nikator.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too often he is remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at the battle of Magnesia, Antiochos however, was one of the most powerful and capable rulers at the time. Having emerged from civil war in 223 BC as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty, he shouldered the burdens of a weakened and divided realm. Though defeated by Egypt in the Fourth Syrian War, he gradually restored full control over the empire. His great Eastern campaign took back India for the first time since Alexander and, returning west, he went on to conquer Thrace and finally freed Syria from Ptolemaic control.</p><p>Then came intervention in Greece and the clash with Rome leading to the defeat at Magnesia and the restrictive Peace of Apamea. Despite this, Antiochos remained ambitious, campaigning in the East again; when he died in 187 BC the empire was still one of the most powerful states in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>His reign is long and complex so I keep it short, but I think this summary shows what kind of man Megas really was besides his defeat at Magnesia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hereby the portrait of Megas, he truly looks great!</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/UWWpbVU.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Antiochos III Megas (223 - 187 B.C.). AR Tetradrachm. Antioch mint. Series 3, circa 204–197 B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Diademed head of Antiochos III to right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY. Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left, bow in bowcase.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> SC 1044.5a; Le Rider series 3-4, obv. A12; BMC 27; HGC 9, 447u.</p><p>17.07g</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your coins of Antiochos III, or any other related coins, or another &#039;Megas&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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